Monday, May 31, 2010 at 07:45
Mike it did indeed cut the track, we travelled on the ferry in mid 1990 20 years ago.
As has been said before when the ferry is running later in the year delays to cross will probably stretch into days if tourist traffic is at last years levels or more.
Back in 1990 we had a group of four vehicles heading south, for us all to cross took nearly two hours as the ferry had to load each vehicle, make the trip, unload the vehicle, load a vehicle coming the other way and then go back across.
Everyone had to get out of the vehicle, don a life jacket and travel outside.
Our troopy and Cub Supamatic camper only just fit on, the ramps were up against the wheels at both ends. They would not take the truck on one trip and then the camper they had to go together or not at all. Most current campers would be much longer than ours so would not fit.
In those days there would probably be 20 -30 vehicles a day using the track, these days in peak period there would be that many an hour so delays to cross will be huge.
Locals had priority so if a load of cattle turned up then you could forget crossing that day at all, as the ferry cannot take large vehicles then the cattle are offloaded into yards then put on the ferry in groups and then offloaded the other side, a lengthy process.
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